Spread of a large plasmid carrying the cpe gene and the tcp locus amongst Clostridium perfringens isolates from nosocomial outbreaks and sporadic cases of gastroenteritis in a geriatric hospital

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 108-113

  Kobayashi, S ^a,c   Wada, A ^a   Shibasaki, S ^b   Annaka, M ^b   Higuchi, H ^b   Adachi, K ^b   Mori, N ^b   Ishikawa, T ^b   Masuda, Y ^b   Watanabe, H ^a   Yamamoto, N ^a,c   Yamaoka, S ^c   Inamatsu, T ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CPE PROTEIN; ENTEROTOXIN; TCP PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; GASTROENTERITIS; GENE LOCUS; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROTOXINS; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GERIATRICS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; PLASMIDS;

EID: 57649130699     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268808000794     Document Type: Article

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